The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-10-20
PITH AND POINT.

The citizen most wanted is not citi-
zen Most Boston Commercial. 20
Electricity is. very serious NATTER ;
and yet Edison makes light of it--Lifs.
You can outlive slandcr in half the
time you can outargue it-Law Cir
cslLar. gRs%
There is one tie-up that everyone
can approve OF, and that is marriage
Boston Post. ,x. s .e{
You should never tease blackbirds.
They are apt to get raven mad. Fits
bsrgh Chronicle.
How to be happy. though married.
try and get on without the hired girl
Syracuse Herald. .
We confess to the weakness of liking
to hear nice things said of us, Rich :
nsond (Ky) Gilman.
The corncob palace to be erected at
Sioux City will be an amazing edifice.
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
| 1t is not free speech but free explo-
sives to which the American people OBJ
ject.-Nes0 York World
Many man has got into peck Of
| trouble by hiding his light under a
busheL Boston Gazette.
The first steps of love are found in
the admiring stares of the young
couple. Boston Bulletin.
1t isn't called high mass on account
of steep pew rents; that is mistaken
idea. Merchant IraUeler.
As for the ballet-girl, whatever en-
chantment there may be in viewing her
is lent by distance. London Truth.
The average New Jersey citizen will
walk through ten miles of red mud for
one drink of applejack.-Furnashing
| Goods RevieU.
If we are to have wings in the here
after we don't exactly see how we are
to get our clothes on.-Furnishing
Goods Review.
Chicago is the champion curiosity
town of the world. She has coal
dealer that gives good weight Gin
cias,sGsi Herald.
| When the millennium comes along
Wallstreet brokers will be found work
ing it for a stock moyement-Bali-
| more american.
Our best friends are those who keep
perfectly quiet when some one is
enumerating our virtues. and
Leather Reporter.
'.My futures at stake,'' remarked a
] Duluth board of trade man as he bet his
December wheat on a ball game.-Du-
luth .Paragrapher.
Church choirs in Wales are very con-
siderate. They go up to the tops of
the highest mountains to practice
Neao York Tribune
Lower your muzzle,'' was the re-
mark made by Nashville girl to
young man who kissed her on the nose.
Detroit Free Press.
Ignatius Donnelly says the Atlantis
was submerged in the flood, but Moses
did Qot seem to Noah thing about it. -
Dul1tb Photographer.
The editor of The Hebron Register
refers to the gifted editor of con-
temporary as an egotistical Wart.-
| Nebraska State Journal.
The kindest wish we can express for
the Chicago anarchists is that their
death on the gallows will be speedy and
certain. Boston Record.
The man who wanted to borrow S1OO
(. on his cheek didn't think, the matter
worthy of note, but the other fellow
did.-Duluth Photographer.
| The boy whose mother whaled him
with five-foot apple-tree sprout said
he had enough of Long Branch for the
season. : Waterloo Observer.
The opposition of the churches to
horse-trotting shows is looked upon by
most outsiders as merely race pre-
judice. -Duluth Photographer.
We hear great deal more about
college graduates in journalism than we
do about journalism in college gradu-
ates. Burlington Free Press. 1
A Charlotte Harbor man has set
hen on alligator-eggs. That hen will
think she has the jim-jam when the
| shell breaks. Orlando Reporter.
The Texas robber who made the
stage-driver give up his Waterbury
watch deserves to be compelled to keep
the thing wound up.-Boston Globe.
In Georgia hotels the flesh of the
much abused William goat is served as
lamb chops. 1t ought to be very
strengthening. Nashville american.
Mrs. Langtry imports her plays, her
clothes and her servants from Eng
land; in fact she imports about every
thing except her husband. Boston
Post.
Thrice blessed is he who wakes up
on Sunday morning and does not find
q step-ladder necessary when he wants
to scratch his head. .-Nebraska> State
Journal.
The man who caps the climax of
Duluth with row of cottages is the
fellow that can read his title clear to
mansions in the sky.-Dmluth Para
grapher.
A young lady at Bar Harbor is so
gone on her two dogs that she never
allows her maid to refer to them except
as Master Jack and Miss Nellie.
iston Journal
Coca Culture.